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1 In George Orwell’s 1945 novel, Animal Farm, what kind of animal is ‘Old Major’?
A A Pig
2 ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done’, is a famous quote from which 1859 Charles Dickens novel?
A A Tale of Two Cities, it is the final line spoken by the character Sydney Carton before his execution.
3 Who wrote the murder mystery play ‘The Mousetrap’, the longest continuously running theatre performance of the modern era?
A Agatha Christie (it opened in London’s West End in 1952)
4 What 19th-century French author wrote ‘The Man in the Iron Mask’?
A Alexandre Dumas. The Man in the Iron Mask is the conclusion to Dumas’s D’Artagnan Romances series.
5 Still published today, which famous book from the 2nd-century CE is credited to Hindu philosopher Vātsyāyana?
A Kama Sutra (Sanskrit: कामसूत्र)
6 What nationality was playwright George Bernard Shaw?
A Irish. He wrote more than sixty plays.
7 Which watery city was the artist Canaletto famous for painting?
A Venice. His precise and evocative views of the city are known as vedute.
8 Which artist painted ‘Guernica’, his comment on atrocities in the Spanish Civil War?
A Picasso (it’s a mural-sized oil painting on canvas)
9 Who wrote the 1968 nonsense poem ‘On the Ning Nang Nong’?
A Spike Milligan